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…(Forest Research Institute Liason Officer) with members of the expedition team Syn Ser (middle) and Pema Sana (back). Photo taken by Kate Armstrong. The volunteer project at RBGE of splitting…
…project started in 2015 and has been carried out predominantly by Herbarium volunteers with staff focusing on the more complicated areas of the herbarium such as the Ericaceae, the family…
…and have been volunteering in the Botanics Library for five years. I worked mostly in education, both administratively and teaching. Through membership of NADFAS I became a “Heritage Volunteer”, joining a…
A series of posts from our volunteers … Helen Bennett Helen Bennett in her garden A period of secondment from Scottish Arts Council in 2006 confirmed my ambition to volunteer…
A series of posts from our volunteers … Maggie Stevenson Maggie Stevenson, Library and Archives Volunteer. I am Maggie, formerly an occupational therapist. Always a keen gardener, I completed the…
…Volunteers planting at Berriedale. But this is just the start. To make a difference the newly produced saplings then need to be planted and this takes volunteers and landowners willing…
A series of posts from our volunteers … Laura Gunstensen – Library Volunteer Laura Gunstensen The ‘Botanics’ have always been a very special place for me since I arrived, fresh…
A series of posts from our volunteers … Simon Muirhead – Trawling through the Archive Simon Muirhead For some years I have been a member of EDFAS [Edinburgh Decorative and…
…Corrour our monitoring process Tinytag data loggers Cicerbita alpina Our wonderul volunteer Kathryn potting up a C. alpina seedling Although we had carried out the majority of the translocations for…
…We are in the process of digitising these collections, much of which has been carried out by volunteers who have taken part in our annual British DataBlitz, creating basic records…
A series of posts from our volunteers … Karissa Adams My time as a volunteer with RBGE began in January 2019, when I was studying Book History and Material Culture…
Karissa Adams, a volunteer with the Library and Archives, writes: Jane Webb Loudon was born in 1807 in Birmingham. In 1819, her mother died, prompting her bereft father to take…
…Country, Scotland’s most important terrestrial carbon sink. Hands-on involvement is key to full engagement, and our volunteer phenology programme, regular ‘Bioblitzes’ and citizen science events bring people face to face…
…to generate the first entire genome for wych elm, marking a new chapter in understanding the genetic basis of disease resilience. Volunteer elm verifiers who will check records provided by…
…Maternity Pavilion in Edinburgh is named in his honour. ***** Researched by Graham Hardy, RBGE’s Serials Librarian and Margaret Dunn Communications Volunteer, and written by Paula Bushell Head of Marketing…
…wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do, but I wanted a break from learning, so went to the Bedfordshire Wildlife Trust, starting as a volunteer and then doing paid…
…to volunteer at my local NNR, and am fortunate that this happened to be Ben Lawers NNR, which is owned and managed by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and…
…Scotland intending to volunteer to become an assessor in the future; to spend a day with us; going over the application, viewing our facilities and storage spaces and spending time…
…Patrick Fenner (volunteer) planting the next generation of elms within sight of the Last Ent of Affric. The planting around the Last Ent is an example of a responsible, scientifically-led…
…Leonie Paterson, RBGE’s Archivist, Graham Hardy, Serials Librarian at RBGE, and Library Volunteer Anne Taylor and the National Trust for Scotland and their Guide at The House of the Binns…